Chapter 37 Even if I tell you, you won't believe me, so I'll just find an excuse
Deep in the dense forest, behind a relatively safe rock.
The remnants of Shrek's group finally stopped.
Everyone's face was filled with shock and disbelief. Dai Mubai, carrying Zhao Wuji on his back, was panting heavily.
Zhu Zhuqing leaned against a tree, looking dazed;
Ma Hongjun slumped to the ground, his eyes vacant.
This once high-spirited "monster team" was now like a drowned rat scattered by a torrential downpour.
Xiao Wu's fate was unknown, Tang San was missing, Zhao Wuji was seriously injured and unconscious, and Ye Liuyun had probably been torn to pieces by the Demon Spiders.
"That guy Ye Liuyun should be gone, right? So many spider soul beasts."
Ma Hongjun swallowed hard, his voice trembling slightly.
"He's definitely dead."
Oscar sat to the side, glancing at Ning Rongrong who was still wiping away tears and looking flustered. The jealousy and bitterness in his heart surged up again.
He leaned closer, trying to comfort her in a "rational" tone:
"Rongrong, don't cry. There's nothing we can do about it."
"Although Ye Liuyun is strong, he is too aloof and arrogant. Such a person is not sociable and is a potential threat to the team."
"He died saving us, so it was a fitting end. Don't be too sad, anyway..."
Smack!
A crisp slap interrupted Oscar's incessant chatter.
Oscar covered his face, looking at Ning Rongrong in disbelief.
"Rongrong, you..."
"Shut up!"
Ning Rongrong stood up, her beautiful eyes now as red as a rabbit's, filled with unprecedented anger and disgust.
He could actually say such a thing to a classmate who single-handedly covered their retreat and allowed them to escape.
She pointed at Oscar's nose, her voice sharp and trembling, and said what she had been concerned about for a long time.
"Rubbish!"
After Ning Rongrong finished scolding him, she completely ignored Oscar, whose face had turned a deep shade of liver.
She hastily wiped away her tears, stretched out her hand, and spoke in a hurried and forceful tone:
"Give me sausages! The kind that restores soul power! Hurry up!"
Oscar was stunned: "What are you going to do?"
"I was so scared just now, my mind went completely blank. I need to replenish my soul power to go back!"
Ning Rongrong gritted her teeth, a resolute glint in her eyes.
"I'm going to help him! I'm a support-type Soul Master, and I have the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. If I can bless him, maybe there'll still be a chance."
"Are you crazy?"
Dai Mubai couldn't help but shout.
"That place is teeming with soul beasts! Many are thousand-year-old soul beasts, and some might even be ten-thousand-year-old. Going back there would be suicide! Besides, he's probably already..."
"Shut up!"
Ning Rongrong screamed hysterically.
She didn't know why she was so excited.
Perhaps it was because of the life-saving grace.
In short, Ye Liuyun was all she could think about right now.
Ning Rongrong was so anxious that she paced around in circles. Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she frantically rummaged through her storage soul tool.
"That's right! I have signal flares! I have the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's distress fireworks!"
"As long as it's released, disciples from nearby sects will definitely rush over! Grandpa Sword might even be nearby!"
With trembling hands, she took out an exquisite command arrow, just about to pull the fuse.
A hand suddenly pressed down on her wrist.
The hand was long and strong, but not rough; only the fingertips were a little cold.
"Let go! Who is it?! Don't stop me!"
Ning Rongrong was so angry that she didn't even look at who it was. She struggled desperately while cursing loudly through her tears.
"Are you out of your mind?! A single second's delay could be fatal, you know?! Get out of my way!"
"Anyone who dares to stop me from saving people, I'll have my dad kill their whole family! I'll fuck you..."
The swear word hadn't even been uttered yet.
Ning Rongrong suddenly raised her head, wanting to see which blind bastard it was.
However.
When she saw who the hand belonged to, all the words caught in her throat.
She was frozen in place, as if she had been frozen by a spell.
Standing in front of her was a boy.
He was almost shirtless, and his clothes were tattered.
They were stained with green and black blood.
Although he looked extremely disheveled, his deep eyes remained calm as still water.
The entire place fell silent.
Dai Mubai's mouth dropped open, his jaw almost falling to the ground.
Ma Hongjun rubbed his eyes hard, thinking he was seeing a ghost.
Oscar looked ashen-faced, as if he had swallowed a fly.
How was that possible?
Those were hundreds, even thousands, of Cave Demon Spiders! There might even be a spider king that was ten thousand years old!
How did he manage to come back alive all by himself?
Ning Rongrong stared blankly at Ye Liuyun, who was so close to her.
She felt the strong, suffocating smell of blood emanating from him.
The hysteria that seemed to threaten to destroy the world was extinguished instantly, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over her head.
Instead, there was a sense of panic and helplessness.
"You... you..."
Ning Rongrong stammered, wanting to say something harsh to cover up her earlier lapse in composure.
But looking into Ye Liuyun's deep, calm eyes, all the words stuck in her throat.
Thump.
Thump.
Her heart was beating faster than when she had been facing death.
The intense impact made her feel dizzy and her mouth dry.
What happened?
Wasn't the danger over? Why was her heart still beating so fast?
Was she startled by his sudden appearance?
Yes! That must be it!
Ning Rongrong frantically tried to find excuses for herself in her mind.
She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the pounding in her heart, and awkwardly turned her head away, muttering something under her breath.
"It's good that you're not dead... saves me the trouble of collecting your corpse."
Around them, Dai Mubai and the others finally snapped out of their shock.
Dai Mubai stepped forward, looking at Ye Liuyun's miserable state, his tone filled with disbelief.
"What exactly happened? Where are those demonic spiders? How did you escape?"
"Yes! That's a beast tide!"
Ma Hongjun's eyes widened as well.
"Could it be that a powerful figure happened to pass by and saved you?"
Faced with everyone's questions, Ye Liuyun didn't know what to say.
It wasn't fair to say he defeated all the spirit beasts.
He dared to say it, but nobody would dare to believe him.
Besides, why bother telling this kind of thing to this group of people?
He gave a perfunctory reply, like someone just giving a child an answer.
"Um."
They heard that a powerful person who happened to be passing by had saved him.
The originally heavy and oppressive atmosphere deflated instantly, like a punctured balloon.
"I knew it!"
Ma Hongjun slapped his thigh hard, even with a hint of smug satisfaction, as if he had already seen through everything.
"So it turns out a powerful person passing by came to your rescue. You're really lucky."
Oscar also let out a long sigh of relief, replaced by a sour feeling called "jealousy".
Ning Rongrong slapped Oscar for staying.
He curled his lip and said sarcastically.
"I should have stayed behind to cover the retreat."
"Alright."
Dai Mubai waved his hand to ease the tension, as this was not the time for sarcastic remarks.
"Since it was a close call but no real harm was done, let's stop talking nonsense."
"Ye Liuyun, since a senior expert saved you, you are very lucky. Don't be so reckless next time; you won't always be so lucky."
After saying that, he stopped looking at Ye Liuyun and turned to look at the crowd.
"Everyone is injured and their soul power is severely depleted. Let's rest here and recover."
"Once Teacher Zhao wakes up, we'll figure out a way to find Xiao San and Xiao Wu."
Everyone nodded and found a place to sit cross-legged.
Ning Rongrong sat to the side, hugging her knees.
As she listened to Oscar and Ma Hongjun's sarcasm, she knew that in the past, she would have definitely chimed in with a few words.
But now, she just thought those words were stupid, like hindsight, all talk and no action. Why hadn't she stayed behind to cover the retreat back then?
She wondered if she had been this naive before.
She secretly glanced at Ye Liuyun, who was resting with his eyes closed.
She subconsciously touched her eyebrows, where the gust of wind from the Cave Demon Spider's attack still seemed to linger.
She patted her chest in confusion, wondering why her heart was still pounding so hard.
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